εὔριπος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[any strait]] or [[narrow sea]], [[where the flux and reflux is violent]], X.''HG''1.6.22, Arist.''HA''544a21, 548a9, ''Mu.''396a25; esp. [[the strait which separates Euboea from Boeotia]], h.Ap.222, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]5.77, etc., cf. Str.9.2.8: [[proverb|prov.]] of [[an unstable]], [[weak-minded]] person (cf. Poll.6.121), πλείους τραπόμενος τροπὰς τοῦ Εὐρίπου Aeschin.3.90; μεταρρεῖ ὥσπερ Εὔριπος [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Nicomachean Ethics|EN]]''1167b7; ἄστατα καὶ ἀβέβαια Εὐρίπου τρόπον Hipparch. ap. Stob.4.44.81; Εὔριποι γενόμενοι Lib.''Ep.''907.<br><span class="bld">II</span> generally, [[canal]], [[ditch]], etc., ''SIG''799.7 (Cyzicus, i A.D.), Babr.120.2, ''AP''14.135.2 (Metrod.), D.H.3.68.<br><span class="bld">2</span> the ''Spina'' in the Circus, Lyd.''Mens.''1.12.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[ventilator]], [[fan]], ἐξ εὐρίπου τινὸς αὔραν εἰσπνεῖν ἐπιτεχνώμενον Gal.10.649. ([[εὖ]], [[ῥιπή]], [[ῥιπίζω]].)